A decision to negotiate over the heads of the Ukrainians would reveal just how Trump sees Ukraine and Europe.
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This isn’t a peace agreement, this is a rehabilitate Russia agreement.
The whole goal is for Trump to run cover for Putin and say" if you do this we’ll remove all the sanctions", all the while not changing the ground war at all. (And probably throw sanctions on Ukraine at the same time).
Ukraine will resist, Europe will resist.